African Christianity

Medieval African Christianity by Zemen Endale From Evangelical Theological College Addis Ababa
intravenous feeding factors had an impact on African Christianity during this era: African conventional Religion, Islam, Slave trade and Colonialism.
1. African Traditional Religion
ATR is the indigenous religion and practice of African people which is the product of their perception, encounter, reflection upon, and experiences of the macrocosm in which they live. Generally the African human exists in two spheres- the visible, and the invisible.[1] The visible tangible and concrete world of man, animals, vegetation and about other natural elements; and the invisible world of the tickers, ancestors and divinities and supreme deity.
1. The regional grimace of ATR
ATR expressed and has expressed itself in the way the African has unceasingly regulated his relationship both with nature and with his fellow-men. Because of this in just about cases, some animals may be regarded as sacred to devotees of some(prenominal) particular divinity, some natural phenomena such as trees, hills or rivers may be deified, as well as some ancestral heroes.
Africa in the Middle Ages (roughly 600-1600) really had no invoice according to this myth. African politics systems were crude and uncivilized and African religion was backward and polytheistic.



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ATR focus on a intermediary between heaven and earth- the scared king. ATR and culture rested upon the play off pillars of kinship and kingship. ATR value system venerated the dead ancestors as the leading of the family and tribe. Kinship ties the living individual with all of nature including the world of the spirits.
2. The clash of ATR with Orthodox Christianity
African kings were not chosen for their genius or ability but rather for their influence with the spirit world for their office is link between human govern and spiritual government.
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